HomeMy WebLinkAboutPresentation - Officer S. Rivera - K-9 Van Snapp MonthWhereas, Steve Rivera has been a Deputy Sheriff with the
Riverside County Sheriff's Department for the past 16 years; and
Whereas, Deputy Rivera has been assigned to the Palm Desert
Sheriff's Station for the last 13-1/2 years, and spent the first two years of
his career at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside; and
Whereas, for the last 7-1/2 years he has been the handler for his K-
9 partner Van Snapp, who is a 9-1/2 year old Belgian Malinois, trained in
criminal apprehension, tracking, and narcotics detection; and
Whereas, Van Snapp and Deputy Rivera have competed in 7
Police K-9 competitions and have won 18 awards ranging from 1st to 4th
place. The awards were for obedience, suspect building searches, suspect
area searches, evidence searches, and vehicle and building narcotics
searches; and
Whereas, during his career Van Snapp physically apprehended 2
suspects and was responsible for taking over 85 suspects into custody.
Van Snapp also responded to over 737 Alarm Calls, and assisted
specialized teams and other law enforcement agencies in 286 searches.
Van Snapp has conducted 24 evidence searches and was responsible for
finding a murder weapon in a field hidden by a murder suspect; and
Whereas, Van Snapp is also trained in narcotics detection,
conducting over 443 searches in vehicles, homes and other places, and
had 138 narcotics finds with a street value close to $250,000. Van Snapp
also conducted over 876 suspect searches, 63 K-9 demonstrations, and
116 search warrant related searches.
Now, Therefore, I, Susan Marie Weber, Mayor of the City of
Palm Desert, California, Along with the entire City Council, Do Hereby
Proclaim May 2015 as
Officer Steve Rivera and K-9 Van Snapp
Month
in the City of Palm Desert and urge citizens to thank them for keeping the
Palm Desert police officers and community safe and free from injury.
In `Lihtness'Wkereof, I have hereunto set my handandl:ave caused
the official Seal of the City of (Palm ,Desert, (,alifornia, to 6e
affixed this 28th day of ;'Nay, 2015.